Before joining IIM Visakhapatnam, she was a postdoctoral scholar at The Ohio State University. She holds a PhD in Mathematics from IIT Delhi. Her research interests include constrained Markov decision processes, robust optimization, chance-constrained optimization, distributionally robust optimization, and multi-stage stochastic programs.

• V Varagapriya, Vikas Vikram Singh, and Abdel Lisser. Convex approximations of random constrained Markov decision processes. SIAM Journal on Optimization, 35(3):1703–1730, 2025.  
• V Varagapriya, Vikas Vikram Singh, and Abdel Lisser. Rank-1 transition uncertainties in constrained Markov decision processes. European Journal of Operational Research, 318(1):167–178, 2024.
• V Varagapriya, Vikas Vikram Singh, and Abdel Lisser. Constrained Markov decision processes with uncertain transition probabilities. In 2024 European Control Conference (ECC), pages 3003–3008. IEEE, 2024.
• V Varagapriya, Vikas Vikram Singh, and Abdel Lisser. Joint chance-constrained Markov decision processes. Annals of Operations Research, 322:1013–1035, 2023.
• V Varagapriya and Vikas Vikram Singh. Chance-constrained formulation of MDPs under total reward criteria: an application to advertisement model. In 2023 European Control Conference (ECC), pages 1–6. IEEE, 2023.
• V Varagapriya, Vikas Vikram Singh, and Abdel Lisser. Constrained Markov decision processes with uncertain costs. Operations Research Letters, 50(2):218–223, 2022.
   

• Reviewer: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, Part C; Chemical Engineering Research and Design; Mathematical Methods of Operations Research; EURO Journal on Computational Optimization; European Journal of Operational Research.  
• Reviewer, Fall 2025 President’s Research Excellence (PRE) Accelerator competition, The Ohio State University. 
• Session Co-Chair, Multi-Time Scale Stochastic Optimization in Power Systems Planning and Operation, INFORMS Annual Meeting 2025, Atlanta, GA.
• Reviewer, Summer 2025 PDA Travel Award, The Ohio State University. 
• Judge for Abstracts, Edward F. Hayes Advanced Research Forum, The Ohio State University, 2025.

• Professional Development Award, The Ohio State University, Fall 2025.
• CIRTL Associate Endorsement, The Ohio State University, 2025.
• Third position at the Hayes Advanced Research Forum, The Ohio State University, 28th February 2025.
• Research Excellence Travel Award, 2023, Industrial Research & Development promotional funds, IIT Delhi.